The memories and stories are better than reliving them.

Post #342,917 by Another Scott 5/22/11 7:40:25 PM Reply	The memories and stories are better than reliving them. I loved a 1970 Pontiac GTO growing up, but even though I sometimes toy with the idea of getting one sometime in the future, some things are best left in the past. Of course, a GTO is nothing like a Black Shadow (which truly was an amazing machine), but I imagine that even if Ashton could get one he would think long and hard about actually putting the money down. Lots of kitties could be helped with $75k. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #342,918 by drook 5/22/11 7:57:46 PM Reply	And few things wreck a good bout of nostalgia quite like ... ... realizing you're too old to find out if it was as good as you remember. -- Drew
Post #342,921 by Another Scott 5/22/11 8:02:31 PM Reply	Yeabut, not applicable here. I'm sure Ashton could still ride down the highway like this if the mood struck - http://upload.wikime...2C_record_run.jpg ;-D Cheers, Scott.
Post #342,923 by drook 5/22/11 8:07:03 PM Reply	Dude! Planking!!!11!1!11one!!1!! -- Drew
Post #342,926 by Another Scott 5/22/11 8:12:22 PM Reply	So it is! 63 years ahead of his time. ;-)
Post #342,935 by Ashton 5/22/11 10:13:12 PM Reply	Heh.. I should have remembered that photo! And the brief story of that ride: Rollie Free was hitting high 140s, noted that his leathers were fluttering / no skin-tight fit, that set. Time for the record run was evanescing, he had fresh experience that bike was handling well, no wobbles, was rarin to GO ---> So he did That and juuust broke 150, a record which stood for n-years (too lazy to look up.) And yeah.. slightly reduced reaction-time / inner-ear-gyroscope etc. are no hazard to piloting such a beast routinely. [that was a Lightning, of course not a Shadow ] Not about to attempt '100 map-miles in an hour' these days and I've seen 122+ a few years ago in the Plutocrat, just for a poor-man's 'dynamometer check' of HP at 4000' alt. Still haven't found a good formula for extrapolating that test to likely HP at sea level. I no wind tunnel to calibrate shape efficiency. You're also right about the (maybe 100K+ by now) and what Else that could do. This scheme only works if there are so many C-notes flooding into Raptor HQ, that even Andrew stops updating the spreadsheet. Certainly I'd overtly embezzle a few sacks of those for general kitty welfare, if I could. The Vincent would be chump change at the L Ron Hubbard level. And we all know now that Barnum was Right, eh? Zoooom

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